An early promise for Donald Trump’s second term as president is swift mass deportations once he takes office, a threat Detroit City Council Member Gabriela Santiago-Romero said “is real to many of us.”
The Mexican immigrant is working to protect the interests of the Southwest Detroit communities she represents as well as her own family members, some of whom, she said, are documented and others who aren’t.
“Last time (Trump was in office) it was the federal government sweeping through the streets, and that’s something that I can’t control,” she told BridgeDetroit. “I don’t know what that’s going to look like (this time). All I know is that I’m preparing to lose any kind of power that we have, and then preparing to organize with my community to get it back.”
On Election Day, the Republican candidate swept battleground states, handily defeating Vice President Kamala Harris. National exit poll data shows that Latino voters, particularly Latino men, came out to support Trump in bigger numbers than his previous two runs for the Oval Office.
While Trump and his advisers have offered […]
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